The Penitent Man

[griefofdawn]

Disclaimer: The usual. Someone owns the Glee characters (Fox), and someone else came up with the idea (Ryan Murphy), but not me. I'm just sticking them in non-canon centric situations.
Pairing/Character: Just Quinn
When/Where: Somewhen post high school. AU in NYC.
Word Count: 200 (Double Drabble ) ( 3 of 100 )

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Growing up, Quinn envied Catholics. They could become nuns and spend all day praying without the guilt. She longed for that kind of faith in God growing up, with Russell Fabray looking over her shoulder, making sure she gave proper credit to God for everything she did.

She was sure that if there was a God, he didn't have time for her petty concerns, since he was probably too busy trying to translate the incoherent prayers of men like her father.

She'd started paying for college her own way, working temp jobs and waitressing, and living with her mother. Two years at the local Lima OSU branch, saving money and applying for scholarships to schools that would allow her to visit Shelby and Beth in Boston.

Looking up at the calendar, she was reminded, again, that her father had gotten the last word, leaving her enough money in his will to pay for her to spend two years at Yale. She lost the battle, like she did every year, taking out the long rambling apology he'd also left her. Putting on her glasses, she read again his hypocritical plea for her forgiveness, buried in a cavalcade of conflicting Biblical quotes.